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The Seven Basic Plots: Literary Connections, Reception & Overview

The Seven Basic Plots: Why We Tell Stories is a 2004 book by Christopher Booker that offers a Jungian‑influenced analysis of stories and their psychological significance. Booker worked on the book for thirty‑four years.

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The Seven Basic Plots topic overview

The analysis highlights Literary Connections, Reception and Overview as prominent areas in the source structure around The Seven Basic Plots.

Related topics
154
Source areas
4
Connected nodes
158
Extracted relationships
49
Concept neighborhoods
24
Bridge connections
158

What this topic covers Research coverage

Source areas are shown by the number of related topics found in each part of the analysis. Use smaller areas too: they can reveal specialized angles and content gaps.

Overview · 128 topics
Reception · 18 topics
Precursors · 4 topics
Summary · 4 topics

Smaller areas are not necessarily less important. They contain fewer connections in this analysis and can be useful for finding specialized angles or coverage gaps.

Key facts & relationships

High-confidence facts extracted from structured source data. Use them as anchors for further research.

Author
Christopher Booker
Dewey Decimal
809/.924
Followed by
Scared to Death: From BSE to Global Warming
Language
English
LC Class
PN3378 .B65 2004
Pages
736

Explore all related topics Closing gaps

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Overview

Summary

Precursors

Reception

Advanced semantic analysis

Deeper signals for content research, entity SEO and topical coverage. The plain-language headings explain what each technical view is useful for.

How The Seven Basic Plots connects Entity context

The extracted context around The Seven Basic Plots shows recurring relationship patterns in the source. For example, The Seven Basic Plots → Adam Mars-Jones, Are No Stories New, Basic, Cecil Adams, Clive Bradley, Denis Dutton, Everything, Google Books, IPL2, Kasia Boddy, Literature, Michiko Kakutani, Once Upon, Plots, Terminator, The, The New York Times, The Observer, The Odyssey, The Plot Thins Another extracted example is The Seven Basic Plots → Beryl Bainbridge, Booker, Fay Weldon, God, God's, If, It, John Bayley, Richard Adams, Roger Scruton, Ronald Harwood, Some, This. Use these groups to spot repeated connection types before inspecting the individual relationships.

The Seven Basic Plots

Top relations

related to External links · 26
The Seven Basic Plots → Adam Mars-Jones, Are No Stories New, Basic, Cecil Adams, Clive Bradley, Denis Dutton, Everything, Google Books, IPL2, Kasia Boddy, Literature, Michiko Kakutani, Once Upon, Plots, Terminator, The, The New York Times, The Observer, The Odyssey, The Plot Thins
related to Reception · 13
The Seven Basic Plots → Beryl Bainbridge, Booker, Fay Weldon, God, God's, If, It, John Bayley, Richard Adams, Roger Scruton, Ronald Harwood, Some, This
Author · 1
The Seven Basic Plots → Christopher Booker
Dewey Decimal · 1
The Seven Basic Plots → 809/.924
Followed by · 1
The Seven Basic Plots → Scared to Death: From BSE to Global Warming
ISBN · 1
The Seven Basic Plots → .mw-parser-output cite.citation{font-style:inherit;word-wrap:break-word}.mw-parser-output .citation q{quotes:"\"""\"""'""'"}.mw-parser-output .citation:target{background-color:r…
Language · 1
The Seven Basic Plots → English
LC Class · 1
The Seven Basic Plots → PN3378 .B65 2004
OCLC · 1
The Seven Basic Plots → 57641576
Pages · 1
The Seven Basic Plots → 736

Important terminology

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Important terminology

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The Seven Basic Plots relationships Subject–Predicate–Object triples

TTTA extracted 49 structured relationships around The Seven Basic Plots. Examples in this analysis include The Seven Basic Plots → Author → Christopher Booker and The Seven Basic Plots → Dewey Decimal → 809/.924. The table shows each extracted connection, where it came from and its confidence.

SubjectPredicateObjectConfidenceSrc
The Seven Basic PlotsAuthorChristopher Booker1.00infobox
The Seven Basic PlotsDewey Decimal809/.9241.00infobox
The Seven Basic PlotsFollowed byScared to Death: From BSE to Global Warming1.00infobox
The Seven Basic PlotsISBN.mw-parser-output cite.citation{font-style:inherit;word-wrap:break-word}.mw-parser-output .citation q{quotes:"\"""\"""'""'"}.mw-parser-output .citation:target{background-color:r…1.00infobox
The Seven Basic PlotsLanguageEnglish1.00infobox
The Seven Basic PlotsLC ClassPN3378 .B65 20041.00infobox
The Seven Basic PlotsOCLC576415761.00infobox
The Seven Basic PlotsPages7361.00infobox
The Seven Basic PlotsPreceded byThe Great Deception1.00infobox
The Seven Basic PlotsPublished20041.00infobox
The Seven Basic Plotsrelated to External linksGoogle Books0.60section
The Seven Basic Plotsrelated to External linksEverything0.60section

Related concept clusters Concept neighborhoods

The concept neighborhoods around The Seven Basic Plots bring nearby vocabulary together. In this analysis, examples include Seven, Plots and Christopher. Use the clusters to find adjacent concepts and terminology that may deserve separate research.

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    • Seven
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  • the hero with a thousand faces
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    • Examples
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    • Little
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    • Stage
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    • Plot
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  • the great gatsby
    • Examples
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    • John
    • Little
    • Rule
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    • William
    • Plot
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Connections between topic areas Semantic bridges

For The Seven Basic Plots, one of the stronger structural bridges in this analysis connects The Seven Basic Plots with Overview. Bridges highlight paths between different parts of the map and can reveal research angles that are easy to miss in a flat list.

Min side: 3
The Seven Basic PlotsOverview · splits 30 ⟂ 129
The Seven Basic PlotsReception · splits 140 ⟂ 19
The Seven Basic PlotsSummary · splits 154 ⟂ 5
The Seven Basic PlotsPrecursors · splits 154 ⟂ 5

Map overview Semantic statistics

The Seven Basic Plots

Nodes159
Edges158
Triples49
Avg. degree1.99
Density0.012579
Components1

Source & methodology

TTTA analyzes the structure around The Seven Basic Plots to surface related topics, entities, relationships, concept neighborhoods and bridge connections. Use the map to explore areas such as Literary Connections, Reception & Overview, including less central topics that may reveal useful research gaps. Automatically extracted connections are research leads rather than rewritten encyclopedia content.

Source: Wikipedia — The Seven Basic Plots · EN edition · Analysis: TopicsToTalkAbout

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